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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: nick on September 27, 2009, 06:17:45 AM

Title: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: nick on September 27, 2009, 06:17:45 AM
i would like to know how much is the dialysis treatment on your place?please include what name of the center you are into

mine is
Center Name: Hemotek Renal Center
Price:                  P1,850     = $ 40
Epo.                    P    900    = $ 18.75
Dialyser new      P1,000     = $ 20

note: we are on re-use of dialyser for 15 use if you consume 15 treatment the dialyser is free
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: napala turki on September 27, 2009, 06:28:02 AM
In Malaysia:

Hospital = Us$ 58.00
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: BigSky on September 27, 2009, 07:37:57 AM
It varies in the US, my unit.

The amount charged to Medicare is not the amount they pay.


Charged amount per treatment.                         Medicare/Insurance actually pays

Dialysis procedure       $629.00                               $148.00



Aranesp-                   $3750.00                               $893.00         (shot ever other week)
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: Jie on September 27, 2009, 12:44:43 PM
What a bargain these prices are! Here is mine in the U.S. for PD (private insurance):

Charge:                                               Pay
Clinic: US$1050/day                            US$880/day
Neph:  US$35/day                             US$35/day
Lab:    about US$3000/month              US$3000/month
Drugs: about US$3000-4000/month      US$3000-4000/month

It is about 0.4 million dollars a year! My actual cost is probably 1/3 of them, and the rest of them is my in-volunteering "donation" to the medical system.


Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: pdpatty on September 27, 2009, 02:24:52 PM
USA
Dialysis-$1,370 in center
04/01-04/29/09
epoetin alfa 100u $147.60 and $196.80 each 1 per week
paricalcitol  $456.00 each treatment
syringe w/wo needle has to be for whole month $170.00

total dialysis treatment 06/01-06/29/09
total w meds was $23,999.80

Saw no charges for doc visit to center.

I did forget to say I get no bills,I don't pay anything. I have Medicare and a supplimental policy that picks up the 20% Medicare doesn't pay.

This center is located in south central Ohio
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: thegrammalady on September 27, 2009, 03:44:26 PM
us - colorado

my neph charges medicare $500 per month and he doesn't bill me for the 20% medicare doesn't pay.
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my portion (20%) of clinic charges when i visit my mother is $35 per treatment

i really don't remember what else is on my eob from medicare.

i know my prescreptions have cost over $14,000 this year alone
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: MomInDialysis on September 28, 2009, 03:01:10 PM
The bills my mom sees each month for what Davita charges Kaiser Permenente is $44,000.00/month.
This is in center 3 times weekly.  3hrs/visit
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: kitkatz on September 28, 2009, 03:19:52 PM
Mine too around 44,000 a month. Unbelievable!
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: silverhead on September 28, 2009, 05:49:01 PM
Wow, what a difference between Davita and the wonderful non-profit we use, just checked her latest EOB from them and the monthly charge (rounded) was $14,000, they paid $5,000, this includes her Nephrologist's charges
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: bevvy5 on September 28, 2009, 08:55:56 PM
Hubby and I live in Canada - no idea how much things cost.  But we got a shock when we looked on the U.S. Baxter site at some of the "retail" prices listed.

Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: Stoday on September 29, 2009, 05:22:43 PM
From a NHS report in 2002 for the UK, the average annual cost of treatment is:

Home dialysis:  £19,300 a year = $2,600 a month
Hemodialysis in a satellite unit:  £21,000 a year = $2,800 a month
Hemodialysis in a hospital:   £22,000 a year = $2,900 a month

A patient pays NOTHING.  :2thumbsup;
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: kimcanada on September 29, 2009, 05:43:17 PM
Nothing

Its hard living with universal health care!   >:D
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: Stoday on September 29, 2009, 05:52:15 PM
Quite so, kimcanada.

I feel sorry for those living in backward countries where you have to pay...

 >:D
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: RichardMEL on September 29, 2009, 08:13:33 PM
The latest figure is in Australia the govt pays around $A85,000/year for dialysis support.
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: keefbeer on September 30, 2009, 05:15:05 AM
Durham City UK

Bugger all !!
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: BigSky on September 30, 2009, 02:55:32 PM
Its not free when you are paying for it through higher taxes.
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: Stoday on September 30, 2009, 04:39:06 PM
It is when someone else is paying for it with their taxes.  :Kit n Stik;
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: BigSky on September 30, 2009, 05:03:38 PM
It is when someone else is paying for it with their taxes.  :Kit n Stik

Quite so, kimcanada.

I feel sorry for those living in backward countries where you have to pay...

 >:D


May the serfs get you anything else?  :P
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: Hanify on September 30, 2009, 05:27:11 PM
Also, you have to realise that with our system of the Government paying for it, there are always waiting lists.  I don't know about Canada and England, but just talk to someone here who needs a hip replacement.  They have to wait ages - sometimes years - cos it's not life threatening.
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: RichardMEL on October 01, 2009, 07:44:21 AM
Also, you have to realise that with our system of the Government paying for it, there are always waiting lists.  I don't know about Canada and England, but just talk to someone here who needs a hip replacement.  They have to wait ages - sometimes years - cos it's not life threatening.

Similar here.

I have no problem paying my tax bills when i understand that for all the rif raff and un deserving sorts that screw with the welfare system, there's folks like me, and people getting heart surgery or cancer treatment or whatever that is of great benefit.

The Government here has ordered 21 million doses of H1N1 vaccine - enough for everyone in the country - and we are allowed to get it free of (extra) charge. It's that sort of thing that I appreciate our system for.
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: nick on October 03, 2009, 06:59:10 PM
wow hope our system like yours here we pay all the medical expenses by our own pocket, then the goverment have an insurance like Philhealth, iam paying the philhealth monthly the problem is the dialysis is not free treatment still the same amount we are paying, then you will apply for reimbursement for 20% of total amount you paid within the 60 days period of your treatment, the check will come to you 3month after they approve it, sometime they giving us a hard time to claim the check for us they will release 5month after.
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: looneytunes on October 18, 2009, 07:13:30 AM
Just read this thread...wow!  What a difference there is across the world in the costs.  Hubby is on PD, cycler.  The cost being billed to our insurance and Medicare is about $35,000 per month! 
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: Bajanne on October 19, 2009, 07:17:40 AM
Patients only pay here if they have insurance, and then the insurance company pays.  If someone is visiting and needs dialysis, they have to pay $506 per session, and that includes everything - Epogen, etc.
Title: Re: dialysis treatment price?
Post by: Lillupie on October 19, 2009, 08:59:19 AM
For my center I am not really sure of the cost. I however have read in a few Nephrology magazines that it cost an average of $100,000 a year for a in-center hemo patient, and about $70,000 a year for a PD patient.
But why the way you guys talk it is much, much more then that!
Wow.
Transplant is much cheaper.

Lisa